Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The IRS has a new job for Lois Lerner

Days after IRS officials said in a sworn statement that
former top agency employee Lois G. Lerner’s computer memory had been
wiped clean, the agency put out word to contractors Monday that it needs
help to destroy at least another 3,200 hard drives.
The Internal Revenue Service solicitation for “media destruction”
services reflects an otherwise routine job to protect sensitive taxpayer
information, but it was made while the agency’s record destruction
practices remain under a sharp congressional spotlight.
Congressional investigators of the IRS targeting of conservative
groups have been hampered by the unexplained destruction of emails and
other records of Ms. Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt
division and a central figure in the scandal.
The loss of Ms. Lerner’s hard drive also raised broader questions
about why the tax agency never reported the missing records to the
National Archives and Records Administration, as required by the Federal
Records Act.